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On Thursday, January 12th,
as Congressperson Maxine Waters was speaking about the Securities and Exchange
Commission on the floor of Congress, the C-SPAN telecast broadcasting her
speech was cut off and replaced by music, images and the program logo of RT,
Russian television. The ten-minute interruption seemed to support the ongoing
controversy over Russian interference in the American ‘democratic’ process.

The mainstream news,
cable outlets and social media went into a frenzy over RT’s alleged ten minute interruption
of the C-SPAN telecast and universally suggested that RT’s interruption of
Maxine Water’s speech was done for ‘nefarious’
purposes.

C-SPAN: Russian TV took over our feedC-SPAN confirmed RT took over its feed of the
House floorThursday.
Creative Commons By Teresa
Welshhttp://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article126192199.html

Not only do these headlines indicate that Maxine Waters was
another victim of a Russian hack attack, the Think Progress article drew an even closer connection to Russian
attempts to interfere with American democracy by even faking the “fake news’ story. The Think Progress reporter, Aaron Rupar,
claimed: “The interruption came as a Congresswoman delivered a speech critical
of Trump and Russia.” Waters was actually speaking about the Securities and
Exchange Commission. This is just another
example of how white folks use “fake news” to control black politicians and
pre-empt the real news about how white supremacy controls America.

C-SPAN’s Statement About The Service
Interruption:

On Thursday afternoon one of our online feeds which
was carrying C-SPAN’s live House telecast was briefly interrupted by a signal
carrying the RT network [which we regularly monitor along with many other news
feeds]. This did not affect C-SPAN’s television broadcast of the House. We
don’t believe that we were hacked, instead our initial investigation suggests
that this was caused by an internal routing error. We take our network security
very seriously and will continue with a deeper investigation, which may take
some time. If we learn anything different as a result of this investigation, we
will have a further public statement.

The
Impossibility Of RT Overriding C-SPAN Programming

Today, I-Phone users know
they cannot send an ‘app’ to another I-Phone without going through their
service provider [ISP]. Structural separations prevent a user from forcing an
application onto another I-Phone. While application programmers control various
games, shopping sites and web page applications, ISPs such as Sprint, Verizon
and AT&T control the gat transport of all applications. I-Phone users
subscribe to speed and bandwidth their ‘apps’ require. Unfortunately, these
rigid structural separations are not in place for cable television.

After the 1984 breakup of the
Bell System, Judge Green ordered structural separations between cable transport
and cable programming. However the separations were never fully implemented.
And with the passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, cable transporters
controlled delivery as well as programming. Cable transporters such as AT&T,
Comcast, Times-Warner not only charge for the quality of service, i.e., high
speed bandwidth and high definition, but also for specific programming
‘packages.’ The transport company packages vary according to the popularity of
the programs. Cable operators charge premiums for specific programs such as
HBO, Cinemax, Showtime, etc., but
include programs that no one watches like C-SPAN in their basic packages. In
reality, there are no structural separations between transport and programming
in cable television; the big companies, like AT&T, Comcast, Time-Warner,
etc. have complete control over everything. RT has absolutely no discretion
over how, when and where their programs are shown. A network carrier such as
Comcast can air the RT on whatever channel
it chooses, anytime and anywhere. Furthermore only a network carrier has the
capability of interrupting an ongoing program and showing something completely
different ___ like when normal
programming is interrupted by the emergency announcements.

If the C-SPAN channel
suddenly began carrying RT programming, it could only have been done at the
network carrier level and executed by a network carrier such as an AT&T.
Any suggestion that RT had anything to do with interrupting C-SPAN’s program is
an example of how “fake news” is faked.

Black Politicians And “Fake News”

‘Fake
news’ about how
Russia influence on America’s presidential election continues overshadow
the real
news about the Republican Party’s illegal and unconstitutional
manipulation of
the entire election process. The media has discussed the Republican
party’s
police state activities only superficially if at all even though
prominent Republicans
have boasted about suppressing the vote, rigging elections, tampering
with ballots
and disenfranchising whole segments of voters. The real news story
concerns the scandalous election-rigging that gave Trump the White
House and its similarity to how the Supreme Court gave the White House
to Bush
in 2000. The real story is the complete subversion of the federal
judicial
system. Instead of the media carrying the real story, they carry “fake
news.” Salon.com reporters, Thom Hartmann
and Richard Greene, gives a sample of how the real story should read:

The election of 2016 may well have been stolen — or
to use Donald Trump’s oft-repeated phrase — “rigged,” and nobody in the media
seems willing to discuss it.

The rigging was a pretty simple process. In 27 Republican-controlled
states (including critical swing states) hundreds of thousands of black people
showed up to vote, but were mysteriously blocked from voting for allegedly
being registered with the intent to vote in multiple states.

Greg Palast writes in Rolling Stone magazine
(August 2016 edition), that … a program
called the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck had been … used by
Republican secretaries of state in 27 states to suppress and purge African
American, Asian and Hispanic votes in … the swing states of the 2016 election.

Crosscheck was started by Kansas Secretary of State
Kris Kobach back in 2007. According to Palast, a total of 7 million
voters—including up to 344,000 in Pennsylvania, 589,000 in North Carolina and
449,000 in Michigan … [were] denied the right to have their votes counted.

The Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck was
not the only method the racist Republican Party used to suppress the black
vote. Michigan declared that Trump won the state's count by 10,704 votes, but
75,355 ballots were not counted. Black voters in Detroit and Flint stood in
long lines in the freezing snow to cast ballots that the white folks did not
count. Furthermore 87 voting machines responsible for counting tens of
thousands of ballots broke down in Detroit. Flint deliberately used faulty and un-calibrated
machines that would not count the ballots submitted by black voters.

These were
not the only criminal methods that the Republicans used to suppress the black
vote and rig the election for Trump. In Michigan, the law permits voters to
make one mark that casts a vote for every Democrat (or Republican) on the
ballot. But Michigan knowingly deployed faulty voting machines in black areas
that invalidated ballots with straight-ticket votes.

Though
these problems could have been resolved had the uncounted ballots been
physically counted, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette prevented any
examination of the ballots cast in precincts where the number of votes and
voters did not match. Count these Detroit and Flint ballots and Trump's victory
would have vanished. But, just as in 2000, the US Supreme Court intervened and
disallowed a recount.

Wisconsin used
the same disenfranchisement tactics as were used in Michigan, Wisconsin
deployed faulty voter machines in Milwaukee where black voters held a majority.
These faulty machines did not count thousands of "spoiled" or
"invalidated" ballots. To coverup all these criminal activities, a
false narrative is being drummed into the American consciousness by the
Democratic as well as Republican parties that Russia hacked America’s democracy.
This is a bipartisan effort to cover up how America’s police state rigged the
election, undemocratically and illegally.

Black Politicians Need “Fake News”

“Fake news”
is important for the survival of Black politicians. “Fake news” claims that the
black vote counts when real news gives evidence to the contrary. Black
politicians exhort their constituents to waste their time voting for a society
of white privilege. Black people don’t get jobs; they get drugs. Black people
don’t get justice; they are murdered in the street. Black students attend
public schools; white people design a school to prison pipeline. Black
leadership uses “fake news” to tell to black people how much white folks care
about democracy and how non-white peoples are a threat to western civilization
and white folks’ “democratic processes.”

Michigan’s
John Conyers cannot say anything about the suppression of the black vote if he
wants to get re-elected. John Lewis is all over the media concerned over
Russia’s political interference, but the so-called ‘civil rights’ icon remains silent
about the fraudulent American political system. Neither is Lewis concerned
about white racists imposing fascism on non-white people in America and around
the world. Barack Obama has said nothing about white racists suppression of hundreds
of thousands of black votes that put a fascist into the White House. However
the so-called Black president has imposed sanctions on Russia for interfering
in America’s democracy. Black people should be asking black leaders why thousands
of black people stood in long lines for hours in the freezing snow to cast
votes that Barack Obama and his black cronies knew would never be counted.

“Fake news” is the lie that
black votes count. “Fake news” is used
to keep black people involved in the demeaning and dehumanizing American
political process. Wake up, black people! The Republican Party hates you and
plans to eliminate you. The Democratic Party hates you and exploits you. Both
parties favor the policy of racial genocide, masked as the War On Terror and the War On Drugs,
that white are waging against non-white people in America and around the world.

Just because some black folks
‘coon’ for the white folks, doesn’t mean they’re going to survive. White folks are
taking away your health care and your social security and when your turn comes,
they’ll let you die in the street. But Derrick Bell calls the ‘coons’ the Faces At The Bottom Of The Well. He says
that the white folks are saving them for last.